pulling power

[Anonymous]

anything from 3-6, normally 6

[Anonymous]

On the club layout some members have run consists with 60-70 cars. The layout is in a space 60' x 20' On my home layout (a shelf switching layout) about 8 cars is my max length. And I have over 60 locos to move them lol. At the club I have hooked up over 30 cars to my P2K SD45 and pulled them up a 2.5% grade.

Bob DeWoody

[Anonymous]

so you can have multipal engines? i thought they wouldn't sync and it would burnout the motors!

[Anonymous]

The club I belong to has a 38 car max, cause that's all that will fit in the sidings, so I like to run between 23-25 cars with 3-5 locos, our club lay out has like a 2.5% grade so some times i like to run 3 lead and 2 helpers bringing up the rear(oh and by the way, i only run powerd locomotives, i can't stand dummy locos), of course it is some times to have like 5-6 locos with not so many cars, the more power the better

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JPM335

My P2K SD60 will handle over 100. But I do work hard to make my cars very free rolling. The two best things you can do is use metal wheels with metal axles and buy the truck tuner from micro mark.

You know all this pulling huge trains with one engine is cool and if thats how you like to do it thats cool, but I don't put to much importance into that, cause I mean on the prototype how often do you see just one SD-70 or C44-9 pullin 30-100 car trains solo, the most I ever see our little local switcher (GP38-2) is pulling like 12-15 cars at most and most railroads i watch use 2 to pull shorter trains and 3-5 some times 7-8 for the really long and heavy trains, and they almost always have helpers on maijor grades, unless the train is realy short. Thats just my prospective

[tomikawaTT]

Siding considerations restrict me to 15 4-wheel freight cars behind a 2-8-2 that gets swapped out for a six-axle motor. (I wanted 20, which is what my prototype ran, but reality intruded on my dream world.)

Longest passenger train carries seven cars behind steam, diesel-hydraulic or electric power. Longest DMU train is six cars. Longest EMU train is four cars.

[Budliner]

did I mention I run 20 to 30 on my home layout



K

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by caellis

I pull 634 cars on my mainline....


That number is no more ridiculous than most of these polls!

Jesus Christ, I can only run 255 car long coal drags on my G scale layout, and it has over 325' of mainline. What do scale do you own, Z scale.

[Budliner]

QUOTE: Originally posted by caellis

I pull 634 cars on my mainline....



That number is no more ridiculous than most of these polls!

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people

[Anonymous]

I've seen longer trains than that!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: so you can have multipal engines? i thought they wouldn't sync and it would burnout the motors!

miltiple engines is fine as long as they go about the same speed. first of all if the power-pack you're using is from a train set it might not run more than 1 engine. The pack will burn out if it's not powerful enough. To ensure both your engines are compatible do this- set them both on the track a few inches apart (they don't have to face the same way- one can be forward, one backward) Then turn up the power and run them- if they run about the same speed then you can run them as a consist.

QUOTE: Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people

and even smaller minds post lots of polls.

[Budliner]

i'll have to take a poll on that


digdoug

[CP5415]

With taking into siding length, grades surpassing 3.5%, I limit my trains to about 10 cars.

If I don't have any other trains to interfere, I have run 30 cars behind a BB SD40-2

Gordon